Introduction

This document lists changes made to the Project UI.

Index of APIs

Project UI

Incompatible changes by date

Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).

Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please consult the Javadoc.

All changes by date

(Dec 1 '11) Added ProjectTemplates
(Jul 20 '08) Externalize Build related action registration.
(Feb 1 '07) Don't open project view component in bluej edition.
(Mar 20 '06) Provide a way to get list of information about recent projects.

Changes by version

These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you see here a feature you need which is labelled 1.20, your manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:

OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.netbeans.modules.projectui/1 > 1.20

(1.32) Added ProjectTemplates
(1.15) Externalize Build related action registration.
(1.12) Don't open project view component in bluej edition.
(1.9) Provide a way to get list of information about recent projects.

Changes by affected class

`org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.api.ProjectTemplates`

(Dec 1 '11) Added ProjectTemplates

`org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.api.RecentProjects`

(Mar 20 '06) Provide a way to get list of information about recent projects.

Details of all changes by API and date

Project UI

Added `ProjectTemplates`

Dec 1 '11; API spec. version: 1.32; affected top-level classes: ProjectTemplates; made by: jglick

Added a new class of constants to use with the New Project action.

Compatibility:

Undocumented tricks like trying to call NewProject.newSample by reflection will no longer work.

Externalize Build related action registration.

Jul 20 '08; API spec. version: 1.15; made by: mkleint; issues: #140731

For certain distributions of NetBeans (PHP or Ruby), actions like "Build project" or "Rebuild project" make no sense in the main menu. Therefore the layer registration for these actions was moved to projectui.buildmenu module which provides token "BuildActions". If a certain distribution requires these actiosn to be present it shall require this token. Java and CND do now.

Don't open project view component in bluej edition.

Feb 1 '07; API spec. version: 1.12; made by: mkleint; issues: #78746

Use system property "project.tab.no.selection" for influencing the behaviour on creation or opening of projects. When this property is set, the opening/creating of projects doesn't trigger opening and focusing of the projects logical view top component. Allows the BlueJ Edition to focus it's own component instead.

Provide a way to get list of information about recent projects.

Mar 20 '06; API spec. version: 1.9; affected top-level classes: RecentProjects; made by: mkubec; issues: #57073

Added RecentProjects class that provides access to list of recently used projects (UnloadedProjectInformation class). Listener can be registered to be notified about change in the list of recent projects. The API is only for friend access.